Erik Riss (born 13 September 1995) is a German

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, longtrack and

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rider, who won the World Longtrack Championship in 2014 and 2016, and was German speedway champion in 2016.2017 Rider Index
, speedwaygb.co. Retrieved 4 March 2017

Career

Born in

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, Germany, the son of former rider

Gerd Riss Gerd Riss (born 17 March 1965) is a German former speedway rider. He competed in motorcycle speedway and longtrack racing. He is an eight-times World longtrack champion. He also earned 22 international caps for the West German national speed ...

and younger brother of Mark Riss, Erik Riss began his speedway career in 2012 and rode in his home country for Automobilclub Landshut from 2013, also riding in Germany for MSV Herxheim and AMC Memmingen. He first had success in long track, winning the German championship in 2014. Later that year, at 19, he became the youngest rider ever to win the

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.Kinvig, David (2014)
Bliss for Erik Riss after signing for Monarchs
, ''Edinburgh Evening News'', 23 December 2014. Retrieved 4 March 2017 In the same year, he was part of the German teams that won the World Longtrack Team Championship and finished fourth in the European Junior Team Championship. In 2015, he began his British speedway career in the

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with

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, with whom he won the League Cup,

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, and the Premier League title. In 2016, he won the German Championship and won the World Longtrack Championship for a second time, scoring a 7-ride maximum in the final round in

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, and finished in 8th place in the Under-21 World Speedway Championship. While continuing to ride for the Monarchs in the Premier League and then in the newly formed

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, in 2017 he also signed to ride for

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in the SGB Premiership, and was selected to ride for Germany in the 2017 Best Pairs Championship. In 2019, he signed for

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. On 1 September 2019, Riss won his first Riders' Championship at

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after qualifying for the semi-final on 12 points. He won the semi-final and then went on to win the final. He rounded off 2019 by finishing third in the

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Classic at

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in Australia. In 2022, he was part of the German team, along with

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and

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, that won the 2022 Team Long Track World Championship. He signed for the

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in the SGB Premiership 2022 and for the Redcar Bears in the

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. He helped Ipswich win the Premiership Pairs but broke his leg riding for AC Landshut in the Polish League. In 2023, he re-signed for Ipswich for the SGB Premiership 2023, where he won the Knockout Cup and also re-signed for Redcar for the

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. Also in 2023, he was part of the German team that competed at the

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in Poland and was part of the German longtrack team, along with

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, Jörg Tebbe and

Stephan Katt Stephan Katt (born 15 September 1979) is a German former speedway rider. He competed in grasstrack, longtrack and motorcycle speedway. He earned one international cap for the German national speedway team. Career Katt was a member of Germany ...

, that won the silver medal at the 2023 Team Long Track World Championship. Riss joined the Oxford Spires in 2024, as a replacement for Nicolai Klindt. Also in 2024, he won a third world team longtrack gold medal at the 2024 FIM Long Track of Nations and became the German champion for the second time. In 2025, partnering Charles Wright, the pair won the pairs championship for Redcar Bears.

World Longtrack Championship

Grand Prix * 2013 - 1 apps (25th) 4pts * 2014 - 4 apps (First) 77pts * 2015 - 4 apps (Second) 68pts * 2016 - 5 apps (First) 122pts Best results *

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First 2016, Second 2014 *

First 2016, Third 2015 Team Championship * 2014

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